Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she 'd learned that Ben and Carole Meadows were staying at their beach-front cottage Laura had somehow assumed that it would be a very small , modest building . |
| 2 | I think Troon was the greatest Arnold Palmer has ever played in his life . |
| 3 | A more open mind was required to discover which of the many possible patterns God had actually chosen to instantiate . |
| 4 | The US Senator Jesse Helms said in Washington yesterday he had reports from Panama that General Noriega had personally shot dead Major Giroldi , the commander of the ‘ Urraca ’ company charged with defending the Defence Force headquarters from where the uprising was launched . |
| 5 | He is the finest King Portugal has ever seen ! |
| 6 | Blanche listened patiently , like the elder sister Dexter had never had but always wished for . |
| 7 | As Representative Mo Udall has colourfully put it , ‘ It used to be that when you met a chairman in the hall you bowed low and said , hello Mr Chairman ; now when you meet a chairman in the hall he bows low . ’ |
| 8 | I suppose it 's remotely possible Clare was romantically involved with Jack Cornelius , although it does n't say much for my powers of observation that I was unaware of it , but it 's equally possible Rex Cunningham has simply jumped to the wrong conclusion : he was ever one to do that . |
| 9 | The divine Miss Grimsilk has already arrived in Hochhauser — at her own request , unmet and unheralded — and will be coming to see me at one . |
| 10 | This story Ramsey had flatly to deny . |
| 11 | Your great-grandfather was the most remarkable High King Ireland has ever known , Grainne ; he liked to listen to the talk of people from other cultures , and he liked to learn about other lands . |
| 12 | Old Mother Jacobsen had once told her how Møn — ‘ The Maid ’ — had been languishing in the frozen Arctic Circle , abandoned by her sun-craving lover , when her cries of anguish had been heard by two giants . |
| 13 | Ironically this Heath Robinson make-do also ended up contributing to the Dalek myth . |
| 14 | AIMING to be top of his class as a rally driver , 40-year-old Alan Gape has just driven his car , a 1965 Sunbeam Tiger , in the Charringtons RAC Historic Car Rally , taking 39th place . |
| 15 | Wordsworth arrived almost at once , and by 2 July Dorothy had also reached Lime Street , after being driven up from Dorset by Coleridge himself ‘ over forty miles of execrable road ’ . |
| 16 | POOR old Ted Sullivan has finally breathed his last in Coronation Street . |
| 17 | At this period Cornford had so separated politics from poetry that he even published a poem in the Listener under a pseudonym . |
| 18 | The last few years Sarah had practically suffocated her only daughter . |
| 19 | Nobody would have known that he was planning to puff on home-grown cannabis in Wales if it had n't been for the ironic coincidence that another Mr Perkins had mistakenly opened a package addressed to the actor . |
| 20 | She needed someone to take care of her all the time , and luckily old Mrs Wopsle had just died , so Biddy came to live with us . |
| 21 | This season Murphy has already sent out 12 winners while his boss is often left to drive the horse-box and saddle up in the parade ring . |
| 22 | Just as the importance of the Stanley anecdote was not whether it was true or not , in a sense it does not matter if the Renaissance cultural relations Greenblatt posits actually existed , because the truth of that cultural negotiation is exchangeable for the writing that more directly serves power , in this case the critical writing which establishes the critic as salaried shaman . |
| 23 | After the auction Joint Services Public Relations , HQ British Forces Cyprus have thoughtfully sent us information about those recently retired Shakletons . |
| 24 | The French Captain Landolphe had previously noted that leading members of the Oba 's councils wore two necklaces as well as anklets and bracelets of coral , whereas lesser untitled officials were allowed only one necklace each . |
| 25 | Perhaps it was something to do with our difference of opinion on the tee , I do n't know — but all through this championship Lee had never asked me to read a putt for him . |
| 26 | THE wife of Iraqi hostage Paul Ride yesterday begged Saddam Hussein to release her husband for Christmas . |
| 27 | Sex with Maisie was about the most interesting thing Robert had ever done . |
| 28 | Positive thinking is another cause Pearce has always tried to promote . |
| 29 | It had been one of the few mistakes Gould had ever made . |
| 30 | It was the longest weekend Shiona had ever endured . |